Trade Card for Jacoby Bros., Clothiers and Shoes

This trade card advertises Jacoby Bros., a clothing and shoe retailer with locations in Los Angeles, California. The card features a pleasant landscape scene depicting flowers, grass, a small pond, and houses in the distance. The card lists two addresses: 128 to 138 North Spring Street and 123 North Main Street. [Jacoby Bros. was one of Los Angeles' largest dry goods retailers in the 1880s and 1890s. Isaac, Nathan, Charles, Abraham, and Lessor Jacoby went into business in 1878, joining with Leopold Harris in buying out Herman W. Hellman's store. The Jacoby brothers, Leopold Harris, and Harris Newmark all came from the same town of Löbau, West Prussia (later part of the German Empire, now Lubawa, Poland). The Jacobys sold clothing, home furnishings, boots, shoes, hats, et al., both wholesale and retail.]

Associated People/Businesses

• Jacoby Bros.

Geography

• Los Angeles

Subjects

• Clothing trade
• Textile industry
• Shoe industry
• Jewish merchants
• Department stores
• Dry Goods

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 13, Folder 12